ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Simant, Simcity 2000, Consumerism
6 Dec 2016
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The way a nation remembers a war and constructs its history is directly related that nation further propagates to how war . The shattering impact ( of sept 11. 01) can be accounted for only against the background of the borderline which today separates the digitized first world from the. Third world of the desert of the real". It is the awareness that, we live in an insulated artificial universe. Zizek, welcome to the desert of the real (images: poster for citizen four, 2014 and images from astro noise exhibition, The uncanny valley depicts variable comfort levels with simulated humans. By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of the truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody.
